"I was reading the dictionary. I thought
it was a poem about everything."
                     --Steven Wright

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Make for ( অগ্রসর হওয়া ) The ship made for England.
  • Live on ( খেয়ে বাঁচা ) The cow lives on grass.
  • Die in ( মারা যাওয়া (শান্তি) ) Let me die in peace.
  • Divide into ( বিভক্ত করা (অংশ) ) It was divided into several parts.
  • Die of ( মারা যাওয়া (রোগ) ) He died of cholera.
  • Satisfaction in ( সন্তোষ ) I find satisfaction in gardening. Great was his satisfaction with her result.

Idioms:

  • bad faith ( বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা )
  • Man of straw ( অপদার্থ লোক ) We do not care a fig for a man of straw like him.
  • Cut a sorry figure ( খারাপ ফল করা ) He cuts a sorry figure in the examination.
  • Cut to the quick ( মর্মাহত হওয়া ) I was cut to the quick by his words.
  • Turn a deaf ear to ( মনোযোগ না দেওয়া ) He turned a deaf ear to my proposal.
  • At once finger ends ( নখদর্পণে ) All these facts are at his finger ends.